Mary Shelley
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The story of Victor Frankenstein and of the monstrous creature he created has held the reading public spellbound since its publication.
On the surface
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, it is a novel of tense and steadily mounting horror; but on a more profound level, it offers searching illumination of the human condition in its portrayal of a scientist who oversteps the bounds of conscience, and of a monster brought to life in an alien world, ever more desperately attempting to escape the torture of its solitude.
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